End-of-life care and advance directives in Japan

Journal International de Bioethique

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages

  Hattori, Toshiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dignity; Euthanasia; Japan; Legislation; Living wills

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEATH; DYING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; JAPAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; JAPAN SOCIETY FOR DYING WITH DIGNITY; LEGAL APPROACH; SCIENCE COUNCIL (JAPAN);

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; HUMANS; JAPAN; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 29544438064     PISSN: 11450762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Cf. Derek Pefit, 1986: Reasons and Persons, Oxford University Press.
2. Cf. http://www.med.or.jp/
3. Cf. http://www.scj.go.jp/
4. Cf. Kai K., 2004: Songensi to keiho (Death with dignity and criminal law), Seibundo.
5. Cf. http://www.mhlw.go.jp/
6. Cf. Akabayashi A., Slingsby BT., Kai I., 2003: "Perspectives on Advance directives in Japanese society: A population-based questionnaire survey 1 ", BMC Medical Ethics, Oct. 31; 4: E5,
7. Asai A., Maekawa M., et al., 1999: "Survey of Japanese physicians' attitudes towards the care of adult patients in persistent vegetative state", Journal of Medical Ethics, Aug; 25(4), pp. 302-8,
8. Kimura R., 1998: "Dying and Advance Directives in Japan: Socio-Cultural and Legal Point of View", in: Advance Directive and Surrogate Decision Making in Transcultural Perspective Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
9. Cf. Legend "Ubasuteyama" novelized and made into a movie "Narayamabushiko". This movie won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983.